When you install BackupAssist on a server running the Hyper-V role, a Hyper-V tab will appear. The tab lists all guests on the server, including those without BackupAssist. At a glance, you can see what guests are active, what guests are being backed up and when the last successful backup ran. You can also begin a granular restore or a guest recovery.
Hyper-V tab columns
The Hyper-V tab lists all of the guests on the Hyper-V host, and uses columns to provide information about the guests. You can sort the guests by selecting a column's heading.
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The Name column displays the name of the guest. To the left of the name are two icon columns. One column shows if the guest has an error, alert or warning, the other column, the guest’s configuration. The configuration icon will indicate if the guest uses CSV and if it is running an Exchange Server.
The Status column shows if a guest is running, backing up, saved, paused or off. Guests can be started and stopped using the Microsoft Hyper-V Manager.
The Size column shows the total size of the guest’s virtual disk and configuration files, on the host.
The Backups column shows the results of the last 5 backups. The icons indicate if the backup was successful, had a warning or failed. Mouse over an icon to display any warnings, errors or messages.
The available column shows how many backups are available for restoring to the guest.
The last successful column shows when the last successful backup job ran.
Guest details view
When you select a guest, a details panel will display guest information at the bottom of the tab. The information provided includes links to the backup jobs configured for that guest, and the results of recent backups.
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The results are displayed as icons below the relevant backup job. Selecting the job’s result icon will open the backup report for that backup.
Hyper-V tab menu
The Hyper-V tab’s menu can be used to access the followings guest restore and recovery tools.
Full VM Recovery
This button takes you directly into the Full VM Recovery process with the highlighted guest selected. The Full VM Recovery console will be used to recover the guest to the current host. Full VM Recovery can also be accessed from the Recovery tab. You can perform a Full VM Recovery of both a normal VM and a Rapidly Recovered VM. Full VM Recovery is included in the base BackupAssist license. To learn more, see Rapid VM Recovery
Granular Guest Restore
This button starts the guided granular restore process for the selected guest. This process will use the Integrated Restore Console to restore files to the guest. Hyper-V Granular Restore can also be accessed from the BackupAssist Restore tab. Granular Guest Restore is a licensed feature that requires the Hyper-V Advanced add-on
Rapid VM Recovery
This button starts a Rapid VM Recovery, which will use the current Hyper-V host to run a guest from its backup. This means if a guest becomes unavailable, its backup can be used to resume that guest’s functions within seconds, while a recovery of the guest is planned and scheduled. When you select the Rapid VM Recovery button, you will be asked to confirm if you want to proceed with a Rapid VM Recovery for the selected guest. Rapid VM Recovery is a licensed feature that requires the Hyper-V Advanced add-on
Discard Rapid VM
This will stop a Rapidly Recovered VM, discard any changes made to the guest’s data since it was rapidly recovered, and remove the guest instance from the Hyper-V Manager. To learn more about this option and how to use it, see Rapid VM Recovery